On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:07:32 -0700 Landon Stewart <lstew...@superb.net> wrote:
> Lets say you had a file that was 1,000,000,000 characters consisting > of 8,000,000,000bits. What if instead of transferring that file > through the interwebs you transmitted a mathematical equation to tell > a computer on the other end how to *construct* that file. First > you'd feed the file into a cruncher of some type to reduce the > pattern of 8,000,000,000 bits into an equation somehow. Sure this > would take time, I realize that. The equation would then be > transmitted to the other computer where it would use its > mad-math-skillz to *figure out the answer* which would theoretically > be the same pattern of bits. Thus the same file would emerge on the > other end. > > The real question here is how long would it take for a regular > computer to do this kind of math? > > Just a weird idea I had. If it's a good idea then please consider > this intellectual property. LOL > > I believe they call this 'compression'. William
